After about 8 years of hosting my site and various other things on RapidVPS, I have finally decided to move things off of it. I have been wanting to do that for 2 reasons: The VPS host was originally based on Ubuntu 9.04, and I wish to take advantage of newer TLS cipher suites that are not available. $20 USD per month isn’t much, but since I am already running a bunch of other sites from my home ESXi, I don’t see…

This is a placeholder post which will aim to clear up some confusions if you happen to work for a US-based company, and the company has offered you pre-IPO stock options as part of your compensation package. Exercises of Employee Stock Options by Non-resident Aliens

A tweet from #AndroidPolice on Android booloaders and the security mechanism around it came to me through #cyanogen today. While it’s not meant to be comprehensive, I think it does help point developers and modders in the right direction to understanding come fundamental building blocks in information security. The fact that these security circumvention techniques float about on the Net goes to show that although the underlying encryption schemes and ciphers remain intact, hackers have consistently managed to find attack…

Prologue- I recently arrived in Taiwan, where my Sprint EVO 4G/HTC Supersonic became more of a Wifi-only device. While Asia Pacific Telecom offers CDMA 1X here in Taipei, EvDO with 3G speed is sorely lacking, let alone WiMax implementation. Besides, the rest of my family members here are on Chung Hwa Telecom, which happens to be the largest network here by virtue of its heritage as a state-run monopoly until recently, so I find it more economically sound to stick…